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>> This 10th-century human, seeing all this, would be full of awe and would get on their knees to worship us. We would be like deities in their eyes capable of
by sinuhe69 1y ago
>> This 10th-century human, seeing all this, would be full of awe and would get on their knees to worship us. We would be like deities in their eyes capable of feats once deemed impossible.
Regarding this hypothetical situation, Rosendorfer wrote a novel in German that takes this exact situation as its main plot line: Briefe in die chinesische Vergangenheit (Letters Back to Ancient China. Trans. Mike Mitchell. Dedalus. 2006. p. 274. ISBN 978-1903517390. ). If you can read German, I cannot recommend it highly enough. Not only is it full of humour, but the novel also offers a very sharp and poignant look at our own time. Read it and you will see that the man from the tenth century will not worship us in any way. Far from it!